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Michael Orr
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Stuttgart Naturkundemuseum. Bee Systematics, Natural History, and everything in between. Focused on Anthophorinae (Apidae). He/Him.
Stuttgart, Germany Katılım Mart 2013
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What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, researchers report in Science.
Learn more: scim.ag/4qaJ3TF
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Here’s an idea: just don’t use this stuff.
Reid Southen@Rahll
OpenAI went from warning users that there's no confidentiality when using ChatGPT, and calling for "AI privilege", to actively scanning your messages to send to law enforcement, seemingly to protect themselves in the aftermath of the ChatGPT induced murder-suicide.
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We had an amazing story to tell, and now it's finally out! 🐜💫
Check it on Researchgate tinyurl.com/mzfw932y
@Nature
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
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BREAKING: A careful, controlled study from @metr_evals on coding and productivity that potentially undercuts one of the biggest positive use cases for generative AI.
Also shows that coders may be overvaluing the tools relative to their actual return.
Excellent thread below, with lots of sensible caveats.
METR@METR_Evals
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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Who's actually benefiting from gen-AI? 🙄
"the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming, while the harms feel transformative and immediate"
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wired.com/story/generati…
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AI scraping bots looking for training data are overwhelming the servers of libraries and archives, making valuable resources unavailable to people. We are losing access to original writing and getting gimmicky writing in return through LLMs. #AIEthics
404media.co/ai-scraping-bo…
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It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning.
"LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels"
This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔
Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice time protects memory circuits and encourages richer language even when a tool is later reintroduced.
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This is simply an admission your industry isn't legitimate. It's built entirely on theft and plagiarism.
It deserves to die.
The Verge@verge
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry theverge.com/news/674366/ni…
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The global online authority for #bees research DiscoverLife.org has been up and down the last few months due to rampant AI bot webscraping. Learn more in our quick new @Nature Correspondence here: rdcu.be/emMOw
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I recently saw a coworker had clearly used AI to wish another coworker “happy birthday” (which he confirmed later). So AI is not only replacing the ability to do academic reasoning of any kind, but even the most basic effort for low level human interactions
Zito@_Zeets
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate.”
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¡Buenas noticias! Nuestro trabajo "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀?" publicado en Journal of Applied Ecology está entre los más leídos de la revista.
👉 Pueden leer el artículo completo en besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…
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There are only a handful of observations of this bee, Anthophora ursina — and this was the first from 2025!
📷 pippin7512 on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: inaturalist.org/observations/2…
#ObservationOfTheDay
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🦤🧬🧑🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
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co-founder of studio ghibli, hayao miyazaki’s reaction to AI generated art btw
Vivek Choudhary@ivivekch
Nobody asked for Bollywood movie scenes in Ghibli style — but here they are.
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This show having zero cultural impact except for this scene is so fuckingfunny
avary 🤍@kyoruyeye
whoremembers
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